Design Skills Symposium - Day 2 Introduction

Reflections on Day 1 Diarmaid Lawlor, A+DS

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Outline

Reflection on presentations Reflection on site visit

Why university town?

Reflection on university tour

Scenarios

Format for the day

Reflections on Day 1 presentations….

Christina

• Connections: spatial and narratives [history/river] • Credibility

Joost

• Professional duty: impact oriented, social focus • Civic institutional framework: connect people

Conor

• Conversation platform: reducing barriers • Communities propose and evaluate

Ton

• Patterns, islands, connections: be human • Scales: fixed frameworks/originality

Rogier

• Place as learning playground, participative, propositional • Collaboration, re-think assets, intensify relationships

Reflections on Day 1 presentations‌.

Reflections on Day 1 presentations‌.

Reflections on Day 1 presentations‌.

Reflections on Day 1 presentations‌.

Reflections on site visit‌.

Services and assets Communities

Creators/makers Re-thinking existing spaces

Participation

Reflections on site visit‌.

Services and assets Communities

Creators/makers Re-thinking existing spaces

town hall Gaeity

Participation

Reflections on university visit….

scale

programme

talent

• Regional focus: regional university] • Mixed role of place • Scale and diversity • Differentiation • Attracting students & retaining staff: people connections • Markets/production: Big cities…..

facilities

• Quality and utilisation • Connections with communities beyond the learner

The town

• “A problem for us all” • Institutional and knowledge connections: library

Reflections on university town‌.

RESOURCES: [finance, people, knowledge etc]

connections

participation

production

SPACES

ASSETS: [buildings, sites etc]

TOWN CENTRE LEARNING

TWO DESTINATIONS

LINKED DESTINATIONS

OVERLAPPING SPACES AND PLACES

Symposium format: DAY 2

Workshop 2

Sharing learning

Workshop 3

Plenary

Actions for change • Start with output of workshop 1 • Spatial focus: where and why?

• Social focus; who and what?

After the symposium • Support to apply learning: what, who, how?

Priorities • Focus down narrative • Prepare presentation Present and discuss • Brief discussion by Scottish Futures Trust • Each group presents, group feedback • Facilitated discussion: actions and priorities • Learning action plan